Applicator device for rouge and the like



Dec. 20, 1949 R KRUCK APPLIGATOR DEVICE FOR ROUGE AND THE LIKE Filed April 1, 1947 Patented Dec. 20,1949

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ABPLIGATOR DEVICE FORROUGE AND THE LIKE Ralph E. Kruck, Clinton, Conn. Application A pril 1, 1947, Serial No. 738,693

1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to devices for applying rouge to the lips and the like and is characterized by a novel combination and arrangement of parts which provide a device that may be economically manufactured and that is easily and readily used for the purpose intended.

According to novel features of this invention, the device includes members that are relatively movable longitudinally for feeding rouge to and through the tip end.

With the foregoing and various other novel features and advantages and other objects of my invention as will become more apparent as the description proceeds, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more particularly pointed out in the claim hereunto annexed and more fully described and referred to in connection with the accompanying drawings wherein:

Fig. 1 is a longitudinal view through an applicator device embodying the novel features of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing a modified form of the invention; and

Fig. 3 is a sectional plan view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Referring now to the drawings more in detail, the invention will be fully described.

According to the form of the invention shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the device in a general way includes a central tubular barrel 2, an upper barrel 4, a lower propeller 6 and a cap 8.

The central barrel is internally and externally screw threaded as indicated by It and 2. The propeller 6 may be tubular in form, is externally threaded as indicated by M, and in engagement with the internal threads ll) of the barrel 2.

The upper barrel 4 is internally threaded at least at its lower end l5 and in engagement with the barrel threads l2. The cap 8 removably fits the upper end of barrel 4.

A stick of rouge is represented by R and its lower end may be disposed in a cap [8. The upper end 20 of the barrel is restricted to permit the rouge material to be extruded therefrom.

As the propeller is rotated in one direction, the rouge is moved upwardly thereby and discharged from the upper end of the barrel 4, and for this purpose the barrel 2 may be held against turning.

It is preferred that the screw threads between the parts be arranged so that as the propeller 6 is rotated its upper end will move upwardly in the barrel 2 to act on and propel the rouge material upwardly. This may be accomplished by making the threads between parts 4 and 2 a tighter fit than those between parts 2 and 6. In this way the member 6 will be screwed into barrel 2 and when therein barrel 2 will be screwed into the member 4.

To insure that the barrel 2 will be screwed into the part 4 by rotation of the propeller, a projection 22 is provided on the barrel 2. This limits upward movement of the propeller 3 relative to the member 2 so that as the former is rotated, the latter will be rotated thereby and screwed into member 4.

In the form of the invention of Fig. 2, a central tubular barrel 39 is externally screw threaded and a lower propeller 32 has at least a part 34 in threaded engagement therewith.

An upper tubular member 35 is externally threaded at 38 and in engagement with member 30 and a cap 40 is removably associated with member 36.

Rouge material R is disposed in the barrel 30 and a piston member 42 having ends it between the bottom wall 33 of the propeller and lower end of the rouge material functions to move the material upwardly as the member 32 is rotated relative to member 30. There may be a yieldable member 45 between the upper end M- of the member 42 and lower end of the rouge material, as shown.

The upper end 46 of member 38 is reduced to act as a discharge orifice for the rouge material.

In either form of the invention, rouge material may be discharged by turning either the upper barrel or propeller relative to the central barrel.

The central barrel 3B in Fig. 2 may have a projection or the like similar to that of the member 2 for the same function.

As rouge material is being extruded and applied, the device becomes progressively shorter in length since the propeller advances inwardly of the central tube and the central tube advances inwardly of the upper barrel.

The invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the essential characteristics thereof. Hence, the present embodiments are therefore to be considered in all respects merely as being illustrative and not as being restrictive, the scope of the invention being indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description, and all modifications and variations as fall within the meaning and purview and range of equivalency of the appended claim are therefore intended to be embraced therein.

What it is desired to claim and secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

An applicator device for rouge material comprising in combination, a central tubular internally and externally threaded barrel for rouge material, an inward projection on said central barrel adjacent the upper end thereof, an upper internally threaded barrel with the threads thereof engageable with the external threads of said central barrel and having an open upper end for discharging rouge material, and a lower tubular externally threaded propeller with the threads thereof engageable with the internal threads of said central barrel, all adapted and arranged that as said propeller is rotated in one direction relative to said central barrel said propeller engages the material therein and urges it upwardly in said upper barrel and whereby as said propeller is rotated said projection abuts said propeller limiting the movement thereof and insuring the threading of said central barrel into said upper barrel.

RALPH E. KRUCK.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,260,881 Doty Mar. 26, 1918 2,209,849 Seguin July 30, 1940 2,263,632 Kendall Nov. 25, 1941 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 669,320 France Aug. 3, 1929 695,921 France Oct. 6, 1930 

